Planning Notices put up in Limmen Gardens on 26th July setting out the closure of three footpaths in the area, were declared unlawful & invalid today.
Website manager Richard Pearson contacted the Department for Transport, and pointed out that the plan & paperwork the notices referred to had not been deposited at St Ann’s library!
Library staff searched every-where, but couldn’t find them.
After making enquiries, Karen Tweddle of the National Transport Casework Team, thanked Richard for noticing the error. The current Notices were then declared invalid while a copy of the required plan & paperwork was sent to the local library this afternoon.
New Notices will now be put up around Limmen Gardens and a fresh 28 day consultation period will began shortly.
The Department for Transport Notices rely upon the Outline Planning Application, Ref 09/01732/POUT submitted on 2 July 2009, and therefore the master plan of that year.
Footpath Closure to allow for new side road with ‘safety’ issues
One proposed footpath closure in front of a row of 8 houses in Limmen Gardens (Numbers 55 – 69), will see the path become a new side road once the new planning application is submitted in a few weeks time.
Like the new road now under construction in Dennet Close, the proposed road in Limmen Gardens will have no footpath either side, so local residents can expect to walk directly out of their front gates into the road! However, there will be traffic calming measures in place so that cars will go slow along this new road.
The idea behind this new side road is simply to allow off road parking for a row of 6 new adjacent houses, ending in a cul-de-sac, presently occupied by two garages in Melville Gardens; a vacant unused grass area with high iron railings presently occupies this site.
The second & third proposed footpath closures refer to the area formerly occupied by the pedestrian underpass, since filled in, and the side road simply named Limmen Gardens. The developer plans to build a row of 4 new houses on the green on this corner of the Stonebridge Park Estate. Off road parking spaces for these homes will be from Beacon Hill Rise road, with a new narrow footpath leading to the rear of the premises.
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